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Robin wrote:
On 28/11/2016 14:28, GB wrote:
On 28/11/2016 14:21, Robin wrote:
On 28/11/2016 14:11, Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:

Graeme wrote:

200 for single people or 300 for a couple.

I'm not quite clear why a couple sharing a home need a higher winter
heating allowance than a single person.

I wondered that too, but according to Bob and newshound, it doesn't work
like that.


It sure don't.

https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/what-youll-get


You qualify but live in a care home and don‘t get one of the benefits
listed* £100 £150

How weird is that?!

IMHO about as weird as a snowflake melting when it falls on the bald bum
of a bonking buffalo.

A person under 80 living in their own home with a person under 80 gets
£100. If over 80 with a person over 80 it's £150 each. So ISTM logical
that if the person is in a care home with (probably many) other people
they get either £100 or £150 if over 80.

Turning then to "one of the benefits listed", people in a care home
getting those income-related benefits usually get some or all of the
cost of the home met by the local authority and that includes heating
costs.

Never really understood these 'targeted' benefits. Surely most pay their
energy bills monthly these days? So simply increasing the OAP by the total
cost of the WHA would make more sense.

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*It is wrong to ever split an infinitive *

Dave Plowman London SW
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